Nintendo breaks record for highest operating profit earned in a fiscal year by a console maker

[Gizmo_Duck]

Nintendo has just announced its financial results for the full fiscal year ending March 2021 which were record breaking.

In particular the operating profit for the full fiscal year amounted to 640.63 Bn yen which is the highest ever recorded in a fiscal year by any console manufacturer (company or console division in the case of mega corporations).
The previous record holder was Nintendo’s fiscal year ending March 2009 which was the peak of the Wii/DS business.

It is probable that the Switch era will be more profitable than the Wii/DS era for Nintendo.


Top 5 highest operating profits recorded by any console manufacturer (company or console division in the case of mega corporations) until now:

Manufacturer | Fiscal Year | Operating Profits
Nintendo, FY ending March 2021: 640.63 Bn yen
Nintendo, FY ending March 2009: 555.26 Bn yen
Nintendo, FY ending March 2008: 487.22 Bn yen
Nintendo, FY ending March 2010: 356.57 Bn yen
Nintendo, FY ending March 2020: 352.37 Bn yen


updated sales numbers as of March 31, 2021:

• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - 35.39M
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons - 32.63M
• Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - 23.84M
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - 22.28M
• Pokémon Sword/Shield - 21.10M
• Super Mario Odyssey - 20.83M
• Super Mario Party - 14.79M
• Pokémon: Let's Go! - 13.28M
• Splatoon 2 - 12.21M
• New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe - 10.44M
• Ring Fit Adventure - 10.11M
• Mario 3D All-Stars - 9.01M
• 3D World + Bowser's Fury - 5.59M

Why does NIntendo need Xcloud again?

 

[the_FUTURE]

Why does NIntendo need Xcloud again?

cause it's still fukk Nintendo Online.

100 mill maybe by the end of the year if that 30mill production goes through. 100 mill regardless once splatoon 3 drops.

 

[Monsanto]

Animal Crossing did numbers.

Their online infrastructure is embarrassing but works quite well for their Pokémon and cart games.



Where is SMT5

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

Who are the folks claiming Nintendo was done?

 

[Kingshango]

The Switch is gonna sell 100 million without an official price drop.

 

[Saint1]

Hold up.
Animal crossing had almost matched Mario Kart 8? Which is a port of a game from last gen which had almost sold 35 MM?

Wow on both accounts. Nintendo is levels Above the competition.

 

[The Mad Titan]

Goatindo

 

[Dallas' 4 Eva]

The Switch is gonna sell 100 million without an official price drop.

I'm actually shocked it hasn't sold more.

 

[42 Monks]

imagine if they had online functionality that was anywhere close to decent

 

[Dallas' 4 Eva]

imagine if they had online functionality that was anywhere close to decent

Nintendo doesn't give a fukk and has some of the shiestiest business practices in history, and people stay buying their shyt. Goes to show you as long as you got good games people will put themselves through torture for your product.

 

[tripleaamin]

And next year we should be getting that new Pokémon game and BOTW 2. And I think we could see Mario Kart 9 as well.

damn.

 

[the_FUTURE]

Nintendo doesn't give a fukk and has some of the shiestiest business practices in history, and people stay buying their shyt. Goes to show you as long as you got good games people will put themselves through torture for your product.

Fun games, innovation and having a legendary mascot.

Mario is out here like Mickey Mouse.

and the innovative/thinking outside the box part looks to be clear with Ring Fit selling 10 mill copies (pandemic be damned)

 

[thaKEAF]

I still need to get ring fit

 

[humminbird]

Yes!

 

[duckbutta]

Nintendo doesn't give a fukk and has some of the shiestiest business practices in history, and people stay buying their shyt. Goes to show you as long as you got good games people will put themselves through torture for your product.

This is the thing people need to realize about Nintendo. Sony and Microsoft are chasing the dollar. Nintendo just does whatever the fukk it wants. Same company that after RE4 became a classic and capcom talked to them about doing the same with RE5 Nintendo said nah we don't really want violent exclusives on our consoles and bushed the deal